Over €66,000 was raised as family, friends, neighbours and even people who didn’t know the Martin family organised fundraising events and donated thousands of euro, reports the Irish Mirror .

The little girl died after a brave battle with cancer

A family friend yesterday said: “We’re just all so sorry and sad today. When it happens to someone so young it’s so hard. The whole community and wider community pulled in together and did their best to support the family in any way we could.”

Shortly after an anonymous person kindly donated €8,000 and mum Tracy said: “The local community has been amazing, everyone has been so kind and everyone had a fundraising idea.”

Doireann undertook a course of radiation in December 2015, which shrank the tumour and alleviated her symptoms, while three sessions of convection-enhanced drug delivery (CED) in Germany costing €45,000 also helped to stall the tumour’s growth.